. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. rtled by the resemblance of the nativesto the North American Indians. Surging back from the eastern borders of Asia, theserestless tribes of Tartars have repeatedly overwhelmedtheir original home, and rolled in a wave of conquestinto Europe, where the Huns have left their perma-nent mark upon Western civilization. The followersof Jenghiz Khan, coming from Northeastern Mongolia,swept over all Central and Western Asia, and wereonly sta5^ed in their destruction by fierce battles foughton the plains of Hungary and Poland. At the time ofthe conqu
. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. rtled by the resemblance of the nativesto the North American Indians. Surging back from the eastern borders of Asia, theserestless tribes of Tartars have repeatedly overwhelmedtheir original home, and rolled in a wave of conquestinto Europe, where the Huns have left their perma-nent mark upon Western civilization. The followersof Jenghiz Khan, coming from Northeastern Mongolia,swept over all Central and Western Asia, and wereonly sta5^ed in their destruction by fierce battles foughton the plains of Hungary and Poland. At the time ofthe conquest of Jenghiz Khan, Merv and Samarkandand Balkh were cities rivaling in population and mag-nificence all but a few of the commercial capitals ofmodern times. MORE POSITIVE EVIDENCE. But the most definite evidence of a recent consider-able depression of this general area arrested our atten-tion in 1900 at Trebizond, on the south shore of theBlack Sea. Here, at an elevation of six hundred andfifty feet above the sea, there is an extensive deposit of. -oco N u u PQw en Evidence of a Deluge in Asia. 317 beach gravel clinging to the side of the volcanic massof rocks at whose base the city is built. The appearanceof the gravel is so fresh as to compel a belief in its re-cent origin, while it has certainly been deposited by abody of water standing at that elevation after the rockerosion of the region had been almost entirely gravel deposit is about one hundred feet thick, andextends along the precipitous face of the mountain fora half mile or more. Some scattered gravel was foundat a height of seven hundred and fifty feet. But thelevel summit of the mountain, at an elevation of eighthundred and fifty feet, was completely free from Charles R. Keyes writes me that, in his ex-cursion with the Russian geologists during the interna-tional convention of 1899, he observed extensive raisedbeaches of corresponding height at Soudak, on thesouth shore of the Crimea, ne
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